“There’s been a lot said about our nervousness and tension we are playing with and I think it’s hard to argue against that.

“We came here wanting to play some exciting cricket and we haven’t done that. We got blown away in those first two games and I don’t think we’ve really recovered.

“We’ve got to be honest enough to say that. We can have no complaints about some of the stick that we’ve taken because it hasn’t been good enough.

“For now I promise you the only focus is trying to get us as a group in a position to win tomorrow’s game.

“If losing the game to Bangladesh was terrible we couldn’t possibly imagine what it will be like if tomorrow goes against us. That would be horrendous.”

Beat Afghanistan first and then get to work on fixing the long-standing and deep-seated issues at the heart of England's one day demise.

Opponents: Afghanistan and England will face off in a meaningless match in Sydney (Image: Getty)

There will be a major review into this tournament's failure, but ultimately it will come down to picking the right players to play the right cricket going forward.

England are playing catch up when it comes to 50-over cricket and they need to find the men capable of leading the chase.

And Farbrace sent a clear message ahead of the new county season that there will be places up for grabs and those able to play a powerful, dynamic and bold brand of cricket should be putting their hands up to be part of the revolution.

He added: “There is now a fantastic opportunity for county cricketers to look and say ‘this is my chance to make myself into a brilliant one-day cricketer.'

“Really use the next couple of years to give myself the best chance to be a fantastic death bowler, to bowl brilliant yorkers, to be brilliant with the slower balls and for batters to make sure that I’ve got a power game.

“The way one-day cricket is going can I make myself into a powerful batsman who can go out and strike boundaries and clear the rope and play proper cricket shots.

“We saw that with Jos and Woakesy the other night when they played good, strong, positive cricket shots we looked like winning that game. When we were trying to run it to third man and nick it down, we never looked like winning the game.

“There’s a fantastic chance now for players in county cricket to stick their hands up and say there are spaces in that England team and I’m going to take my opportunity. There has never been a better time has there if we’re honest.”